Here is the book file.
Диккенс Чарльз - .epub
It contains non-breaking spaces:

After conversion, they are replaced by & # 160;
I managed to leave them in their original form only with the help of the command in powershell. Maybe there really is a problem in the system settings, I don’t know.
P.S. The presence of characters & # 160; in the text leads to the following result: